As the second son of an architect, he studied architecture in Zurich, practiced this profession even to the dissolution of his office in the year 1955th but parallel, he also worked as a journalist, since 1931 as a freelancer for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He traveled extensively through Europe, America and Mexico, and lived then in various cities, including Berlin, in New York and in Rome until he settled in Berzona (Ticino / Switzerland). Frisch's work includes novels and plays. His first novel was Stiller (1954). His most famous pieces are Homo Faber (1957), The Fire Raisers (1958) and Andorra (1961). Frisch was repeatedly awarded literary prizes, including the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize (1939), the Rockefeller Grant for Drama (1951), the Wilhelm Raabe Prize (1954), the Georg Büchner Prize (1958), the literature prize of the city of Jerusalem (1965) and in 1976 with the peace prize of the association of German book trade (1976). From his first wife Gertrude he left in 1959 divorced and lived with Ingeborg Bachmann, who he had met in July 1959, he followed in 1960 to Rome, together. There he stayed mostly up 1965th 1968 married Frisch second wife 28 years younger than Germanistik- and Romance student Marianne Oeler, from which he got a divorce 1979th

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